“Should Doctors Prescribe Religion for Mental Health?”
Welcome to the debut of a brand new podcast show!
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Introducing “Soul Science”—The Podcast
Introducing a brand new podcast series coming to New Walden—”Soul Science: Conversations at the Crossroads of Science and the Spiritual.”
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NewWalden Featured in List of Worthwhile Catholic Blogs
So what is Catholic Transcendentalism anyway?
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Evidence for the Soul? A Reply to Michael Shermer
Have scientists discovered the human soul? Research on mental health suggests that the mind appears to manifest certain soul-like attributes, namely, the experience of reward and punishment.
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St. Paul, Neuroscientist for the Ages: How Neuroscience Agrees with the Apostle That the Loss of Religion Means the Loss of Our Minds and Souls
Science is discovering the truth of St. Paul’s writings. And the horrible truth science is discovering? Secularism is not ushering in an enlightenment, but a mental health apocalypse instead.
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A Well Designed Eclipse for a Well Designed Mind
Today we behold one of the most spectacular celestial events to grace our planet: for just a few brief moments, night will intrude upon daylight. Jay Richards, from the Catholic University of America, describes just how unlikely it is that we should ever experience one these amazing eclipses: But the story doesn’t end there. A […]
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Are Conservatives Finally Waking Up to the Mental Health Crisis in America?
America’s youth are crumbling from a long running epidemic of mental illness, says Mona Charen over at National Review Online. I’ve been shouting this message from the rooftops for close to two years now—and most recently, from the rooftops of Duke Medical School. It is encouraging to see this frightening tragedy finally get the attention it […]
Read More…Duke Powerpoint: “Does Religion Really Poison Everything? A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science”
Here are the slides that went with my lecture at Duke Medical School. I believe all sources are adequately cited. I think I noticed a couple of slides where attributions were inadvertently/inexplicably cut off. I may make changes to some slides since I will certainly make use of this resource in the future. The slides […]
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The Science of Sinning Less—From Christianity Today
Practicing Christians have more self-control than lax Christians and secular people according to a study that is featured in the latest issue of Christianity Today. [Bold emphasis is mine.] Because Christianity requires self-control, it logically follows that it also builds it, and thus we can expect active Christians to have relatively high levels of self-control. And […]
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Advertisement for My Duke Lecture—Happening 4-26-17
Just thought I would share this with you. It’s the advertisement for my Duke lecture that is going out to seminar participants. Title: “Does Religion Really Poison Everything? A Critical Review of New Atheist Perspectives on Religion and Science” In his 1999 book Rocks of Ages, the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould coined […]
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Can America Survive the New Atheism?
A discussion of the excellent Eric Metaxas book If You Can Keep It. The video offers a unique explanation for the present lunacy of the left: If you want to save America, DEFUND ATHEISM.
Read More…The Mental Health Catch-22 for Churches
Do churches belong in the business of mental health care or not? Here is one point of view from an article by Mary Rezac at the Catholic News Agency. Bold emphasis is mine: Maria had been struggling with some depressive and anxious thoughts for a while, although at the time, she didn’t recognize them as […]
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